02132cam a22002537 4500001000600000003000500006005001700011008004100028100002300069245013800092260006600230490004100296500001500337520105400352530006101406538007201467538003601539690005601575690005601631710004201687830007601729856003701805856003601842w9065NBER20161209220256.0161209s2002 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aHelliwell, John F.10aHow's Life? Combining Individual and National Variables to Explain Subjective Well-Beingh[electronic resource] /cJohn F. Helliwell. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc2002.1 aNBER working paper seriesvno. w9065 aJuly 2002.3 aThis paper attempts to explain international and inter-personal differences in subjective well-being over the final fifth of the twentieth century. The empirical work makes use of data from three waves of the World Values survey covering about fifty different countries. The analysis proceeds in stages. First there is a brief review of some reasons for giving a key role to subjective measures of well-being. This is followed by a survey of earlier empirical studies, a description of the main variables used, a report of results and tests, and discussion of the links among social capital, education, income and well-being. The main innovation of the paper, relative to earlier studies of subjective well-being, lies in its use of large international samples of data combining individual and societal level variables, thus permitting the simultaneous identification of individual-level and societal-level determinants of well-being. This is particularly useful in identifying the direct and indirect linkages between social capital and well-being. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web. 7aF0 - General2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aI0 - General2Journal of Economic Literature class.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. w9065.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w906541uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w9065